@gabrieloguda Credit needs to be given where its due. Mr. President @WilliamsRuto, moments such as these deserve their flowers.
You deserve the credit for pushing the Lamu refinery conversation from ambition towards execution, and bringing this mammoth private capital to Kenya.
Airports are fascinating because everyone is simultaneously having a completely different day: honeymoon, business trip, relocation, holiday, heartbreak, homecoming.
I have a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. I am 28. I currently work as a security guard in Qatar. Every morning I put on my uniform and think about the version of me that graduated thinking the world was waiting. Nobody tells you that sometimes the world is not waiting. You just have to keep showing up anyway.
Her resignation letter made the CEO go silent for twenty minutes...
Emma cleared out her desk at 5 AM.
Left the letter on his chair.
No drama. No scene.
Just two pages of gratitude.
"Thank you for teaching me what leadership isn't."
Then came her lessons:
"When you took credit for the Harrison campaign, you taught me to document everything."
"When you promised three promotions that never materialized, you taught me words without action mean nothing."
"When you ranked us against each other quarterly, you taught me competition inside kills collaboration."
"When you called weekend meetings for Monday's agenda, you taught me fake urgency is about control, not deadlines."
Fifteen examples.
Fifteen lessons.
Each one specific.
Each one true.
The worst part?
She meant every word.
No sarcasm. No bitterness.
Just genuine appreciation for the education.
"You showed me exactly the leader I refuse to become."
He found it Monday morning.
Read it once.
Read it again.
Read it again.
Called her cell.
Straight to voicemail.
His assistant heard something she'd never heard:
Nothing.
For twenty minutes, he sat there.
One of his best people.
Gone.
No notice.
No warning.
And every word aimed at him.
When he finally emerged, he asked:
"How many others feel this way?"
His assistant looked at the floor.
That told him everything.
Emma?
She's running her own team now.
They've never met her old boss.
But they know him.
Through every decision she doesn't make for them.
Every credit she doesn't take from them.
Every promise she keeps to them.
Her team thinks she's a natural leader.
They're wrong.
She was trained by the worst.
And learned exactly what not to do.
Sometimes the best teachers
are the ones who show you
exactly who you never want to be.
Are you financially literate enough to understand that two aligned adults build wealth faster ,
survive shocks better ,
Run farther , than one isolated ego ?
Are you deeply aware ?
When you rise, stay humble. When you fall, stay patient. Arrogance makes noise, but humility builds legacy. Never cling to status. No school will teach you this
If you want to legally rob people in Kenya especially the middle class...
Without harming them,
Just start a primary school and give it a glorious name...
But,
In between the name and school add INTERNATIONAL.
KING'S INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL.
In the curriculum, add things like Ballet, Chess, Band, Taekwondo, and Swimming.
Now put whatever figure you want on the fee structure.
Rob them.
Buy a bus,
Charge 17,400 as transport fee per month.
Steal,
Organise a parents’ sports day every term,
Steal,
A trip outside the country once a term,
Put whatever figure, let’s say 312,047 to Egypt for four days.
Interviews every term, charge them 5,000.
Put the admission fee at 15,000.
Even pre-school.
Uniforms to be sourced from one very specific shop at twelof milyen.
OMOKAAA,
Mark you,
The curriculum is CBC,
King's International School is only based in Embakasi,
All the pupils are Kenyan,
Mr Wafula, the head teacher, has no passport, and the furthest he has ever gone is Mombasa for a teachers’ retreat.
Class teachers are Chepkor, Wanjala, @FGaitho237, Madam Selly, Polo Kimani, @Josh001J, and @Degrata254.
HOD is @Kotsocha_ke
For lunch, instead of cheese burgers and pizzas, serve them githeri and cabbage.
Breakfast weka mkate na smokie.
Call yourself a Director.
Get rich, NO DCI.
Pesa ni yao, akili ni yako!